A Stannis Baratheon Project Log (Update 30/08, pg 19 - Queen Selyse)

[AKULA]

I envy you your steady hand - your heraldry is top notch

 

[HappyChappy439]

Hi again!

Bit of a change this week where I've put together a couple of household guards (or dismounted knights) of House Manderly as a sort of test for the 'uniform' of Lord Wyman's personal guard.

So rather than spears, they've got tridents, and scale armour because White Harbour's got its brand going on as one of the wealthier places in The North.





They could also double up as some of the White Harbour men skirmishing with the Boltons in the Hornwood during A Clash of Kings



They fit together quite nicely in formation too! But I've run into a bit of a snag where I've run out of tridents, so making more might be a bit difficult! Any manufacturers of tridents would be much appreciated!



Let me know how they've turned out!

[AKULA]

They look great

 

Castaway Arts sell tridents

https://secure.iig.com.au/castawayarts/index.php?cmd=store

Steve Barber models used to have some but I think they sold the range - the following company seem to stock their gladiator weapons, but no photos.

http://www.triangleminiatures.com/SBM_GLA.htm

[HappyChappy439]

Ah! Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check them out!

I'll probably reserve tridents for foot troops or mounted officer types, and rely on plumes and seaweed-looking frilly coats for the rest

[Metternich]

Very stylish looking

[Munindk]

Lovely painting and punning

Are the scale mail bodies fireforge?

Trident heads seems like the sort of thing you could easily cast using intant mold and the putty of your choice.
Snip off a few spear heads and put on some trident heads and you're golden

[HappyChappy439]

Lovely painting and punning

Are the scale mail bodies fireforge?

Yup! They're fireforge bodies, with Perry French Infantry heads (the bascinets with neck armour), and cavalry visors and plumes, with the foot-knight lances

Trident heads seems like the sort of thing you could easily cast using intant mold and the putty of your choice.
Snip off a few spear heads and put on some trident heads and you're golden

Excellent idea with casting tridents! I'll put together a mold and see how it goes! Worst case I make one for REALLY tiny tridents for like, helmet crests!

[AKULA]

I’m curious, do you have a plan/list you are working from, or are you going from House to House as the mood/inspiration takes you?

The reason I ask is that I can’t see any end to my own project ...the more I work on it, the longer the todo list seems to get....

 

[HappyChappy439]

I’m curious, do you have a plan/list you are working from, or are you going from House to House as the mood/inspiration takes you?

The reason I ask is that I can’t see any end to my own project ...the more I work on it, the longer the todo list seems to get....

 

I'm pretty unstructured with this one to be honest! I think at first it just started out as "I want to make a small Stannis!" but then it ended up growing as I got more and more into it, probably helps that I've been doing a re-read of the series too! So sometimes I'll just end up deciding "you know what? I'll do some Manderly lads" or other times I'll be mid-reading and get a flash of inspiration!

I've not got any rules or army list to go with it either! I'm kinda unfamiliar with what's on offer in the fantasy wargames systems, so sometimes I've *generally* copied what looks like Lion Rampant stuff (like units in multiples of 6), but that's a happy coincidence more than actual planning there! 

[AKULA]

I'm pretty unstructured with this one to be honest! I think at first it just started out as "I want to make a small Stannis!" but then it ended up growing as I got more and more into it, probably helps that I've been doing a re-read of the series too! So sometimes I'll just end up deciding "you know what? I'll do some Manderly lads" or other times I'll be mid-reading and get a flash of inspiration!

I've not got any rules or army list to go with it either! I'm kinda unfamiliar with what's on offer in the fantasy wargames systems, so sometimes I've *generally* copied what looks like Lion Rampant stuff (like units in multiples of 6), but that's a happy coincidence more than actual planning there! 

 

It’s really interesting, rereading some of the GoT threads, how many LAFers started out with “I’m planning on a small force of XXX” and then the project spirals out of control.  In many ways I’m glad I didn’t write a list to work to at the outset, as the background material lends itself to so many different possibilities.

Keep up the good work mate.

[Ogrob]

Indeed, I had pretty much built as many models as I was ever going to need for my first intended game system, and then just kept going.

Love the Manderly knights!

[HappyChappy439]

Hi again!

I've been quite busy these last couple of weeks painting up horses for King Stannis' knights, which worked out as quite lucky timing, as @Akula has been recently showing off some excellent Free-Folk on their project thread!





Largely they're the new Perry Agincourt plastic knights, with 1st Corps shields, asides from King Stannis himself, and his two standard bearers who are based on Perry metals! I've also attached yellow pennons to each of the lances, because Jon says that there's "yellow, so much yellow, yellow banners" and I wanted to reflect that in some way!

Here's a side-on shot to give a little better angle on the banners



And for some of the individual knights, I've tried to keep the available knights in-line with who we've seen or heard about in the books with King Stannis

"he glimpsed a seahorse, a field of birds, a ring of flowers"  - Jon X, A Storm of Swords. (I've tried to copy the Florent sigil from the appendix in the books, with its...interesting fox-face)



"The turtle is Estermont, the swordfish is Bar Emmon, and the crossed trumpets are for Wensington" - Samwell IV, A Storm of Swords




For some of the other knights, I've taken some liberties, Stannis describes how Lucos Chyttering and Lester Morrigen are still loyal to him, with Richard Morrigen following Stannis to the Wall, so I've included knights to represent their houses. In A Dance with Dragons, part of Queen Selyse's escort is Narbert Grandison and Perkin Follard, but no mention about the rest of their houses, and whether they support Stannis. So I've included a Follard and a Grandison on the assumption that there might be more of them bopping about! Originally I was going to do just a Lion Passant for the Grandison sleeping Lion, but then, reading through the Complete Guide to Heraldry, turns out a lion taking a cat nap dormant is an actual heraldic concept, fancy that!




And finally King Stannis himself, and his royal standards, one of them just being held by a Baratheon retainer, but the other one I'm using to represent Devan Seaworth, one of Stannis' squires, because I had to have an onion somewhere! I've also taken @von Kalden's advice and put the crown on the stag's head this time, rather than on its neck! (I know Lightbringer in the books isn't supposed to actually be on fire, but I wanted to set it apart somehow from a distance)

"Floating above them were the largest banners yet, royal standards as big as sheets; a yellow one with long pointed tongues that showed a flaming heart, and another like a sheet of beaten gold, with a black stag prancing and rippling in the wind" - Jon X, A Storm of Swords



Let me know how they've turned out!...I may need to take a break from horses and focus on infantry for a while to recover!

[AKULA]

Wow - what an update!

The new Perry cavalry fit the bill and the vivid yellow goes really well with the white snow - the pennants are a nice touch.

Very effective en masse, particularly with the minor Houses...the more I see of them, the more I’d like to add Stannis’ forces to my todo list.

Whereabouts are you based, we should get a game in ...although I’ll need a lot more free folk...unless you are happy for me to butcher your Baratheons with some Boltons..?

 

[gibby64]

Excellent attention to detail... if that force were charging at me, there's no chance i'm standing my ground for the inevitable!

[Wellington Bonaparte]

These knights are awesome, the heraldry is amazing and the banners superb! Please keep the updates coming